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Donald Miller Inspirational Quotes (143)

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The real voice is stiller and smaller and seems to know, without confusion, the difference between right and wrong and the subtle delineation between the beautiful and profane. It's not an agitated voice, but ever patient as though it approves a million false starts. The voice I am talking about is a deep water of calming wisdom.
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All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.
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When you fly across the country in an airplane the country seems vast but it isn't vast. It's all connected by roads one can ride a bike down. If you watch the news and there's a tragedy at a house in Kansas, that guy's driveway connects with yours, and you'd be surprised by how few roads it takes to get there.
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The economy is turning around, so that's going to help a little bit.
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You cannot be a Christian without being a mystic
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I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.
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I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you.
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What I believe is not what I say I believe what I believe is what I do.
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Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.
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People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.
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It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.
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Lets choose to do something really difficult, something that saves lives, and let's do that thing with people we love.
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There are things you cannot understand, and you must learn to live with this. Not only must you learn to live with this, you must learn to enjoy this.
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Truth grew in my mind like a fungus, and though I tried to sleep it out, there was no resisting the epiphanies.
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It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.
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The sexual conquest is huge with men in terms of affirming themselves and their feelings of masculinity. That's a misguided kind of affirmation. That is not helpful, but that stuff happens.
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The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.
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The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.
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The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something. And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool.
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And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.
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the times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did.
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It's possible to do both as a writer - to engage and have a family and all that good stuff - and I chose not to for the sake of the career.
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Half the time I don't know what I'm trying to say.
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Even our beliefs have become trend statements. We don’t even believe things because we believe them anymore. We only believe things because they are cool things to believe.
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